Yeah, or if I were an expanding yet constricted population I would think “instead of contract we will expand, and find an addition” i.e. so many people will nee

Yeah, or if I were an expanding yet constricted population I would think “instead of contract we will expand, and find an addition” i.e. so many people will need more land. That’s the normal human response, not “so many people we need to contract and subtract.”